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February 13, 2012

Predictions From Athlon, USAToday Magazines

If you navigated last September without shaming yourself, your family, your employers and the city you call home, congratulations! You had a better month than the Red Sox. ...

Outside of Ellsbury, every player on the roster has room to improve and all of New England - not to mention the rest of baseball - will be watching hawkishly to see how they respond. ... The Sox have circled the wagons and proclaimed that they're not the freak show everyone thinks. Now comes their chance to prove it.

Mindset ,talent , or whatever , the problems they have had lately has been injuries we lose someone key and we are done. Mainly because we do not have the arms in the minors to make up for a guys like Clay , Beckett, or Lester. Or a third baseman to make up for Yook. The team is built to win with the roster they start with . Because management has shown they will not go get a top line guy at the deadline.

Thats what make its so hard to predict what this team can do ,because it is always on the brink...

Tim Britton (Providence Journal) asks three questions - rotation, shortstop, right field - and notes that the club has been more concerned about changing attitudes than personnel:

Coming into 2012, it's about change and challenge. The Red Sox aren't embracing a change in roster so much as a hopeful one in attitude, with hunger and conviction slated to replace hype and complacency. There are legitimate questions regarding the constitution of the lineup, the rotation and the players' mindsets.

Coming into 2012, it's about change and challenge. The Red Sox aren't embracing a change in roster so much as a hopeful one in attitude, with hunger and conviction slated to replace hype and complacency. There are legitimate questions regarding the constitution of the lineup, the rotation and the players' mindsets.

You're using this cliched tripe as some kind of reference? The only thing this is proof of is the predicatability and superficiality of most mainstream sportswriting.